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SSC CHSL 2022 PYQ — Question 22

SSC CHSL - 24 May 2022 - Shift 2 • English • Q22

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In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. 
Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) ___________ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) __________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ___________ detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him – for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) __________ figure, but of a unique (5) ___________ of flesh and blood. 
 

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2. 

 

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. which.

  • We use which in questions as a determiner and interrogative pronoun to ask for specific information.
  • Hence, it is the most appropriate option.

Hence, the correct sentence would "....pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, which they can therefore recount as God Himself might..."